# Anne Chirnside > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Anne_Chirnside > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Anne_Chirnside.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Chirnside > Source revision: 1334627894 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Australian rower (born 1954)}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2018}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Anne Chirnside | full_name = | image = | caption = | nationality = Australian | sport = [Rowing](/source/rowing_(sport)) | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|9|9|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | club = [Melbourne University Boat Club](/source/Melbourne_University_Boat_Club)
YWCA Rowing Club | nationals = ULVA Trophy 1977-1980 | olympics = [1980 Moscow W4+](/source/Rowing_at_the_1980_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women's_coxed_four) }} '''Dr. Anne Elizabeth Chirnside''' (born 9 September 1954) is an Australian former representative [rower](/source/rowing_(sport)) and a general practitioner of medicine in rural Victoria. She was an eight time Australian national champion, twice represented at [World Rowing Championships](/source/World_Rowing_Championships) and was a member of Australia's first Olympic representative women's rowing crew, competing in the [women's coxed four](/source/Rowing_at_the_1980_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women's_coxed_four) event at the [1980 Summer Olympics](/source/1980_Summer_Olympics).{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ch/anne-chirnside-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418065018/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ch/anne-chirnside-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Anne Chirnside Olympic Results |accessdate=2 September 2018}} ==Club and state rowing== Chirnside commenced her senior rowing with the [Melbourne University Boat Club](/source/Melbourne_University_Boat_Club) in 1973. From 1976 to 1978 she raced for the YWCA Rowing Club in Melbourne but then returned to the MUBC.[https://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/rower-profiles/young-anne#gsc.tab=0 Chirnside Profile at Austn Rowing History] She first made state selection for Victoria in 1977 as a reserve for the coxed four to contest the ULVA Trophy at the annual Interstate Regatta within the [Australian Rowing Championships](/source/Australian_Rowing_Championships), though she did not race. She raced and won the ULVA Trophy in senior Victorian women's fours in 1978, 1979 and 1980. At Australian Rowing Championships in the late 1970s Chirnside won a silver medal in the elite pair in 1977,[https://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/national-championships/1977#we2 1977 Austn C'ships at Austn Rowing History] took gold in a composite women's eight in 1978,[https://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/national-championships/1978#w8 1978 Austn C'ships at Austn Rowing History] gold in the women's elite coxed four and women's open eight in 1979 [https://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/national-championships/1979#w8 Austn C'ships 1979 at Austn Rowing History] and 1980.[https://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/national-championships/1980#w2&gsc.tab=0 Austn C'ships 1980 at Austn Rowing History] ==International representative rowing== The 1979 Australian champion Victorian women's four with Chirnside in the bow seat was selected in toto to contest the [1979 World Rowing Championships](/source/1979_World_Rowing_Championships) in Bled. They rowed to a fifth place.[https://worldrowing.com/athlete/anne-chirnside?id=1942 Chirnside at World Rowing] That same crew stayed together into the [1980 Olympic year](/source/1980_Summer_Olympics) and coached by [David Palfreyman](/source/David_Palfreyman), Chirnside, [Sally Harding](/source/Sally_Harding), [Pam Westendorf](/source/Pam_Westendorf), [Verna Westwood](/source/Verna_Westwood) and [Susie Palfreyman](/source/Susie_Palfreyman) were selected as the first Australian women's Olympian crew, to race as a coxed four at the [1980 Moscow Olympics](/source/1980_Summer_Olympics). They again finished in fifth place. ==Post rowing== Chirnside coached the [Geelong College](/source/Geelong_College) first four from 1981 to 1985. She completed medical studies at Melbourne University and operated a general practice in [Little River](/source/Little_River%2C_Victoria) in the [Wyndham](/source/City_of_Wyndham) [local government area](/source/Local_government_areas_of_Victoria) of outer Melbourne. She married fellow 1980 Australian rowing Olympian [Tim Young](/source/Tim_Young_(Australian_rower)). For a period they owned the historic rural property Mouyong in the Little River area. That property had historical connections to earlier generations of the Chirnside family.[https://catalogue.wyndham.vic.gov.au/client/en_AU/wycl/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002fSD_ASSET:302192/ada?qu=mouyang&rm=WYNDHAM+HISTORY0%7C%7C%7C1%7C%7C%7C0%7C%7C%7Ctrue&d=ent%3A%2F%2FSD_ASSET%2F0%2FSD_ASSET%3A302192%7EASSET%7E11&dt=list%3F&h=8 Mouyong History] ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * {{sports links}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Chirnside, Anne}} Category:1954 births Category:Living people Category:Australian female rowers Category:Olympic rowers for Australia Category:Rowers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Category:Place of birth missing (living people) Category:20th-century Australian sportswomen --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Anne Chirnside](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Chirnside) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Chirnside?action=history)). 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